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[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The disease was already in 1 in 5 dairy samples before any even basic tests of if the disease could survive pasturization were published. The disease could mutate to survive...

Sure, in the same way volcanologists could mutate to survive being submerged in lava.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well considering it may survive the high heat used for flash pasteurization at 72C (181F) for brief periods per the originally linked study, it's not as much of gap as that

This disease spreads fast, and is rather deadly in most (though not all) species. It's not the kind of thing you want to do little monitoring of. At present, there is comparatively little testing overall of cows and humans both. We're not picking up much of what this virus is doing

[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Sure, in the same way volcanologists could mutate to survive being submerged in lava.

I've heard the exact same analogy applied to alcohol killing bacteria and it doesn't convince me